About The Word Flummery
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Flummery
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What's The Definition Of Flummery?
[n] meaningless ceremonies and flattery
[n] a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal Synonyms | Synonyms for Flummery: mummery Related Terms | Find terms related to Flummery: absurdity | amphigory | babble | babblement | balderdash | bibble-babble | blabber | blather | bombast | claptrap | double-talk | drivel | drool | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | folderol | fudge | fustian | gabble | galimatias | gammon | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | gobbledygook | hocus-pocus | humbug | jabber | jargon | mumbo jumbo | narrishkeit | niaiserie | nonsense | pack of nonsense | palaver | prate | prattle | rant | rigamarole | rigmarole | rodomontade | rubbish | skimble-skamble | stuff and nonsense | stultiloquence | trash | trumpery | twaddle | twattle | twiddle-twaddle | vaporing | waffling See Also | hokum | meaninglessness | nonsense | nonsensicality | pudding Flummery In Webster's Dictionary \Flum"mer*y\, n. [W. llumru, or llumruwd, a kind of
food made of oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned
sour, fr. llumrig harsh, raw, crude, fr. llum sharp, severe.]
1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a
sort of pap.
Milk and flummery are very fit for children.
--Locke.
2. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment;
trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
The flummery of modern criticism. --J. Morley.
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